Device for producing pictorial representations



DEVICE FOR PRODUCING PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS F ed Oct. .29. 1938Patented Nov. 5, 1940 um'reo stares PATENT oFFica DEVICE FOR PRODUCXNGPECTURIAL REPRESENTATIONS Friedrich Kroner, Berlin-Charlottenburg,

' Germany Application ember 29, 1938, Serial No. 237,695

- In Germany ctober 30, 1937 4 Claims.

of their sensitive nature are liable to be easily 1 damagedmechanically.

It is, an object of my invention to provide means for protecting thesaid sheets against such mechanical injuries.

Still another object of my invention is to use the outer sides of theprotecting means as means for supporting opaque pictures which may beselectively combined with the representations on the transparent thinsheets to form composite representations.

With these and other objects in view, as may become apparent from thefollowing disclosures, the invention consists not only of the structuresherein pointed out and illustrated by the drawing, but includes furtherstructures as here-, inafter may be claimed.

The character of the invention, however, may be best understood byreference to certain of its structural forms, as illustrated by theaccompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of apreferred embodiment of the invention, in open condi-- covers a and b..The said sheets e and f are ex' tensionsof the sheets forming thecovers a and b and folded 'Foverat the hinge edges. Provided on theupper sides of the hinge covers e, f, etc., are pictorialrepresentations g of any desired subject matter which may be modified bysuperposing'any of the transparent sheets d (1 etc., on the respectiveflfiap'.

Itwill be readily understood that any. of .the sheets d d etc., may thusbe superposed on any of the flaps e, 1, etc. For example, the uppermost.sheet d". lying under the flap e may be brought into the position shownin Fig. 2 in solid lines, after having" lifted the cover e,'then turnedover to the position shown in Fig; 2

v in dotted lines, and finally flatly superposed on flap e as indicatedin Fig. 4. In this position the representation, colour, pattern,inscription or the like 9 on the transparent sheet cl forms thedesiredpcomposite representation together with the representation,.colour, pattern, inscription or the like 9 on the cover 6. The sheet (imay now be turned over to the left and superposed on the cover f;entirely different efiects and representations may be produced in thisposition by the provision of representations on the cover I which aredifferent from those .on cover e and/or by the provision ofrepresentations on the respective side of sheet 11 which are differ-'ent from the representations on the side viewed first, but within thecontours of said repres'entations on the first side of sheet d When thesheet (1 has thus been. viewed in both positions, the hinge coverf islifted and sheet d is put under cover 1, to assume the position shown inFig. 2 in dot and dash lines, and the next sheet 01 may now be producedfrom its position under cover 6. It will thus be seen that the sheet dwhich has been viewed returns to a protected position under cover f sothat it cannot be damaged asthe next sheets are viewed. The operationsabove described with reference to sheet d are now repeated withreference to sheet (1 r Fig. 4 shows the booklet in its folded upposition, the sheets being protected from all sides.

My novel device may be 'used, for instance, to

illustrate the outer appearance and the inside of any articles,-or toshow the successive phases or steps of any occurrences, processes,events or the like, for educational, entertaining, advertising orsimilar purposes.

. Iclaim:

1. An article of manufacture comprising two hingedly connected covers ofopaque material, a plurality of sheets of transparent material eachconnected at one edge with said covers at the hinged connection thereofto form a booklet and each bearing an opaque picture, each cover beingprovided with a picture visible from the inside of said booklet, saidcover pictures being x of different appearance,a support for at.leastone of said cover pictures in the form of a flap of opaque materialhingedly connected to a free edge of the cover, said sheets beingindividually turnable to be selectively superposed on either of thecover pictures, when the latter are adjacent the hinged connection ofthe covers and in a the open position of the booklet, to forma compositepictorial representation therewith or alternatively tov be placedbeneath the flap in stowed-away position.

2. An article of manufacture comprising two hingedly connected covers ofopaque material, a

plurality of sheets of transparent material each connected at one edgewith said covers at the hinged connection thereof to form a booklet andeach bearing an opaque picture, and a flap of opaque material for eachof the covers hingedly connected to a free edge thereof and bearing apicture on its outer surface, said flap pictures being of differentappearance, and said sheets being individually turnable to beselectively superposed on either of the flaps when the latter areadjacent the hinged connection of the covers and in the open position ofthe booklet, to form a composite pictorial representation therewith oralternatively tobe placed beneath one or the other of said flaps instowed-away position.

v 3. An article of manufacture comprising two hingedly connected coversof opaque material, a

.plurality of sheets of transparent material each connected at one edgewith said covers at the hinged connection thereof to-form a booklet-andeach bearing two different opaque pictures, one visible from the frontside and the other from the rear side of the sheet, each cover beingprovided with a picturewisible from the inside of said booklet, asupport for at least one of said cover pictures in the form of. a flapof opaque material hingedly connected to a free edge of the cover, said'sheets being individually turnable to be selectively superposed oneither of the cover pictures, when the latter are adjacent the hingedconnection of the covers and in the open posivisible from the front sideand the other from the rear side of the sheet, and a flap of opaquematerial for eachof the covers hingedly con.-

nected to a free edge thereof and bearing a picture on its outersurface, said flap pictures be ing of different appearance, and saidsheets being individually turnable to be selectively superposed oneither of the flaps when the latter are adjacent the hinged connectionof the covers and in the open position of the booklet, to form acomposite-pictorial representation therewith or alternatively to beplaced beneath one or the other of said flaps in stowed-away position.

